Fish Table

Ever since year two I seem to have had a strange obsession with fish with in my interactive work. My first idea usually involves fish. Fish coming out of your hands, Fish coming out of the wall, fish coming out of a wand. It was like our little joke. However the idea of having a fish table has never left me.

The idea of having a big dinning table with fish under a glass surface during your meal was what came next. This was a great idea till I actually thought about the logistics of the water… and fish poo. Then we saw the IBar. What a good idea to have digital fish instead, which would react on your shadows I thought…. but how would I ever make that?

During Evans tutorial today I told him about the idea. He was like ‘yeah cool idea… develop it’ When I said it would be impossible to do, he said don’t think about the technology just think about the idea… he also told me the guys who made the IBar have open sourse code and anyone can have it! …

So here is a little picture to show the idea a bit better. The fish is underneath the table top, and you eat on the table. The Fishes want to communicate with you, but they prefer the dark, so they like to hide under your plate and your hands. They swim up from the dark unknown to say hello. They get hungry and try to nibble things on the table. Then the idea spirals from there!

Different types of fish

Different types of rivers

Different things floating around other than Fish

How to present the idea- a performance?

Why would someone want to interact with this?

I come back to the reasruch on happenings. I feel hopefully, through development we could create a piece which breaks a few "rules". Maybe use real water. Make an interactive piece which reacts with emotion towards you, rather than react on your emotion twards it. Create a piece which can convey an emotion. One of guardedness but hunger. Like us with our work I guess :D

(oh here is a picture of what the fish would see while you eat your dinner...i thought it was kind of a cool persepctive)

Can we be as disgustingly commercial as to call it ... I Fish.